Haiti has asked the United States and the United Nation to send troops to help it secure its ports, airport and other strategic sites after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a government minister said.
The US has already said it will send FBI and other agents to Port-au-Prince, two days after Mr Moise was brutally killed by gunmen in his home, opening up a power vacuum in the impoverished and crisis-hit Caribbean nation.
In the wake of the slaying "we thought that the mercenaries could destroy some infrastructure to create chaos in the country. During a conversation with the US Secretary of State and the UN we made this request," elections minister Mathias Pierre told AFP...
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Haiti has asked for foreign troops to be sent to the country to protect key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
ReplyDeleteThe request was sent by the government to the US and the UN, but the US says it has no plans to offer military assistance "at this time".
Haitian police earlier said a group of 28 foreign mercenaries killed the president on Wednesday.
After a gun battle in the capital Port-au-Prince, 17 of them were detained.
Some of the group, which Haiti says included retired Colombian soldiers, were held at the house they were using, others after entering Taiwan's diplomatic compound, the police said.
Three suspects were killed by police, and eight others are still being sought.
Although the US will not offer troops, it said on Friday it was sending FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials to Haiti to help in the investigation.
The UN Security Council would have to approve any plan to send international troops to Haiti under UN auspices.
The killing has triggered some civil unrest in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas. A state of emergency remains in force across the country and it is unclear who is in effective charge of the country's government.
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